BFI-UNAB Organized Crime Conference
This two-day conference brings together leading scholars and policymakers to explore the dynamics of organized crime across Latin America and beyond. Through research presentations and policy discussions, sessions will examine topics such as paramilitary groups in Colombia, gang dynamics and extortion in Ecuador, protection economies, criminal entry, recidivism in Chile, and broader approaches to citizen security and organized crime policy.
If you have any questions, please reach out to bfi-events@uchicago.edu.
PHOTOS
Agenda
Coffee & Welcome
Accountability Shock: Why Transitional Justice Prevents Criminal Wars in New Democracies
Guillermo Trejo, University of Notre Dame
Break
When Criminal Authority Fractures: Violence, Extortion, and the Consequences of Fragmentation in Ecuador's Drug Trade
Eduardo Montero, University of Chicago
Lunch
Room 702
The Market for Extortion and Protection
Martin Castillo Quintana, University of Chicago
Break
Breaking Bad, Early
Chris Blattman, University of Chicago
Break
Keynote and Q&A: The Economics of Illegal Markets
Peter Reuter, University of Maryland
Conference Dinner
Coffee
The Departed: Italian Migration and the American Mafia
Paolo Pinotti, Bocconi University
Break
Cash Transfers and Reintegration of Ex-Inmates in Chile
Tomás Guanziroli, Universidad Andrés Bello
Lunch
Room 702
The Pax Criminals
Benjamin Lessing, University of Chicago
Break
Fireside Chat: Citizen Security Policy
Eduardo Vergara, Inter-American Development Bank